In scanning this weeks Register I
noticed where I was a member of the Nighthawk hockey team of
Weston, which played St. Marys Club of Aylesford just
30 years ago. I think that 30 year marker will be always
impressed on me.

Getting up to make a fire the coldest
morning of the recent blizzard, I jumped on the floor and
landed with one bare foot which chattered up to my remaining
teeth. I lost no time in starting to procure kindling. While
breaking up some, I overlooked a large board nail which drove
into my left palm or hand half an inch. In case of rust, I
sucked out some blood, then lit the fire. The few words I
said at the time I dont think quite reached The
Register office. I then searched for the missing sock, and
happened to look upwards towards my knee. Lo and behold there
was the missing member. The mystery was easily explained;
while heating my feet the night before I had burnt the whole
toe out, causing it to slip upwards. Then reading your paper
I realized it was the 30th anniversary of my entry
into hockey.

Getting back to that Weston team, Harold
Robinson and myself were both Berwick boys who lived very
close to the Weston border, and Berwick had no hockey team
that season. If we expected an easy victory at Aylesford we
did not get it, s the St. Marys Club were finely
conditioned, and like the Weston Club had great stamina from
skating on outdoor ponds, and after both teams battled in a
friendly manner the game ended 1-1 after 60 minutes of
thrilling play. To this day I have never enjoyed a game
better.

In a summary of the members of that Weston
team today, Ogilvie, the goal tender, has passed on; C.
Crocker, point; E. Skinner, rover; Joe Taylor centre, are
residing in Weston; C. Crocker, coverpoint, and Joe Taylor
centre, are located in Western Canada, and myself in Berwick.

Jas. Wilson, who referred the game at
Weston, has passed on. I suppose in another 30 years, if this
happens to be published, there will be few of us that will
remember a game played 60 years previous. The games to which
I refer were played with less convenience than today as
enclosed rinks were few in that period.

Weston later went on to prove a very
formidable team and in 1914, in the Cornwallis Valley League,
lost the Morton & Craig trophy to Canning only after 40
minutes overtime play, the final game ending 2-1. Thus this
clean, fast skating team from the small community of Weston
proved a credit to Kings County.